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Donald Trump & Birtherism: How to Argue with Birthers?
Lately, billionaire & bad-hair aficionado Donald Trump has been getting a lot of press by going around the talk show circuit and making references to the supposedly “questionable status” of...
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Discovery Channel’s “The Supernaturalist” is Super Stupid
There was a time when I had really high hopes for cable channels like the Discovery Channel – I had hoped that they would be bastions that would promote sound science amidst a sea of sensationalistic...
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More Media Fail and Silliness: Lunar Effect Babies
This week there’s been a story going around the media about a supposedly huge jump in births in a Sacramento hospital where “45 babies were delivered in 48 hours.” Now that may or may not sound very...
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WTFF’s “Hug Me, I’m Vaccinated!” Campaign Gets a Shout Out from… the...
Wow. I’m pretty stunned by this development. Many of you know that in the past I have been highly critical of the Huffington Post (a.k.a. the HuffPo) for their tacit acceptance and promotion of...
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Deceptive Anti-Vaccination Ad by the NVIC on Delta Airlines
It’s like playing a game of Whack-A-Mole sometimes… the anti-vaccine movement is back at it again, this time with a deceptive ad on Delta Airlines flights by the National Vaccine Information Center...
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Another Crappy “Lake Monster” Sighting in Canada?
Here’s a new one for the “you’ve-got-to-be-kidding-me” files: a halfway serious ABC News report on a really bad video shot by someone who claims to have evidence of a lake monster in Canada called...
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Update on the Delta Airlines Anti-Vaccine Ad
In a recent blog post – Deceptive Anti-Vaccination Ad by the NVIC on Delta Airlines – I mentioned an online petition at Change.org that is gathering signatures to convince Delta Airlines to pull the...
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Resolve to Fight Deadly Anti-Vaccine Propaganda: Start with the NVIC’s New...
Just yesterday I learned that the National Vaccine Information Center, a deceptive title for one of the worst anti-vaccine propaganda groups out there, has a new ad playing in New York City’s Times...
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A Brief History of The “History” Channel
I have long lamented the slow, downward spiral into an abyss of stupidity taken by networks such as The “History” Channel in recent years. It started when a student of mine expressed his shock at...
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CNN Taken to Task Over Its NON-Critical Thinking on the Boston Bombing
As I mentioned in my last post regarding this past Monday’s Boston Marathon bombing, there has been a huge amount of rumor, misinformation, and innuendo floating all over the place, and we should do...
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Loch Ness Monster Activity is Likely Just Seismic in Nature
I ran across two articles recently about the latest research regarding the Loch Ness Monster. And by “research” I really do mean serious scientific work: it seems that many supposed Nessie sightings...
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“Doctor” Oz Fails at Medicine AND Physics as He Pushes Cell Phone Fear-Mongering
This recent silliness by “Doctor” Oz came to my attention: apparently, during a recent show he took seriously the notion that women shouldn’t carry cell phones in their bras because it could give them...
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BBC Will No Longer Provide False “Balance” in Science Stories
For far too long, the media landscape has increasingly gone down the rabbit hole when discussing science-oriented topics. Often, the notion that journalists and editors should provide balanced...
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Fox News Nails It on Ebola
Ebola is in the news, and unfortunately too many people are speculating and panicking about this terrible disease. And even more unfortunate, there are far too many media professionals who are...
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